Tuesday, August 11, 2020

Movies for the Day, Tuesday, August 11, 2020

Today's movies mark the birthday of Alfred Hitchcock and Vietnam.

Which of today's movies would you watch?











Spellbound (1945) is a Hitchcock
murder mystery with psychiatry and
amnesia thrown in.  It won an Oscar for
Score.  Alfred Hitchcock was born August 13,
1899.  A very good movie.




Spellbound












Alfred Hitchcock Presents (1955-1962)
was a TV anthology series about crimes.  Each of the 268 episodes
was a half hour.  It won numerous Emmys.
See especially Fog Closing In (1957),
Breakdown (1956), The Case of Mr. Pelham
(1956), and The Glass Eye (1958).




Alfred Hitchcock Presents














Dead Presidents (1995) is about a
black man in the 1960s Bronx back
from Vietnam.  A violent movie.
The Gulf of Tonkin resolution authorizing
war in Vietnam was August 7, 1964.





Dead Presidents































































































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